Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tanks and jet fighters, to Greece's NATO-committed armed forces-though the flow of small arms, ammunition and spare parts was allowed to continue. By so doing, the U.S. hoped to gain leverage over the colonels in order to persuade them to return the country to democratic rule. The effort failed...
Though Papadopoulos and his colleagues have enacted a new constitution and made other gestures toward a re-establishment of representative rule, the country remains under martial law. Furthermore, the junta shows no inclination to hold free elections any time soon...
...preserve near Trier in the Eifel Mountains, a fist-sized wound in his chest, his Mauser rifle, loaded with dumdum rounds, across his legs. Accident? Ludke was an avid hunter and too experienced a rifleman. Suicide? The Trier district attorney's office thought so, but it did not rule out murder. There was nothing in Ludke's record to indicate a likelihood of treason, but the federal prosecutor's office left open the possibility that he had spied for a foreign power...
...each case, there were personal explanations for the death, but security officials did not rule out other motives, even though only Ludke, Wendland and Grimm had had access to classified information. One line of speculation suggested that extensive security checks launched in sensitive departments after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia might have frightened enemy agents into suicide. Bonn admitted last week that toward the beginning of October, after one East German agent had been arrested, six others fled West Germany. But it did not tie them to the admiral. By week's end the Ludke case remained open...
...Whichever-President will have the mandate of only a small part of the population, a situation which Richard Nixon said in Boston would make it impossible for the President to rule. A weak Presidency can only hurt the conservatives (Nixon) because the Congress wouldn't let Humphrey do anything liberal even if he were elected...